Multiscale criticality measures as general-purpose gauges of proper brain function.

ABSTRACT: The brain is universally regarded as a system for processing information. If so, any behavioral or cognitive dysfunction should lend itself to depiction in terms of information processing deficiencies. Information is characterized by recursive, hierarchical complexity. The brain accommodates this complexity by a hierarchy of large/slow and small/fast spatiotemporal loops of activity. Thus, successful information processing hinges upon tightly regulating the spatiotemporal makeup of activity, to optimally match the underlying multiscale delay structure of such hierarchical networks. Reduced capacity for information processing will then be expressed as deviance from this requisite multiscale character of spatiotemporal activity. This deviance is captured by a general family of multiscale cri

SUBMITTER: Fekete T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8280148 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature